What does your work steal from you?

what do you steal at work?

Talk about effective fucking management...

This place it stealing my sanity and my reasonableness.

"Work is Crap Shocka! - Nation Stunned As Some People Reveal Job Hate"

Tomorrow on ILX - London is BIG Revealation. " There are houses and shops and stuff as far out as CROYDON reveals ILX survey!"

FOUR QUATLOOS ON THE NEWCOMER

honestly one just cannot get the staff

none of you could understand how happy this makes me

I don't remember you mentioning it in the pub though. Maybe I'm going senile.

Hi Kilian - fuck off and think of some more inane prattle to fill up ILM why don't you?

anyway - reviewing the C5 soft porn is just a hobby, OKAY?

This is a temporary job, I keep telling myself that. (Though they seem to be under the impression that this job is my life.) This is a temporary situation. I am working on ways to get the hell out.

Strange how life imitates art. Or ilx. A hilarious little storm in a tea-cup just blew up here a few minutes ago then those two dudes start trading insults.

Every thread?

there's something horribly smug about the doctor that really sticks in my throat. ugh. i must withdraw from this thread for the good of my health. yeuch.

I just went to get a cup of coffee and someone filled the coffeemaker wrong, and it was, like 2 tablespoons of coffee for an ENTIRE POT and I didn't notice as I was filling my mug so I just took a sip of COFFEE FLAVOURED WATER!!!!!!!!!!

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

How revolting!

I'm having one of those days when even the coffeemaker is against me.

Umm, this work is stealing my ability to sleep all day and my urge to train and write good and interesting code.

I will second that one. And work has also inspired the giddy psychosis that has caused me to prattle on about elf pirates and mighty ducks.

There is a lot of work in my dept. but my bosses rolled over and gave their assent to the chief for me to go upstairs. I'm feeling a lot of pressure to do it, but the notion of doing it for no extra compensation (they are saving a *lot* of money by not hiring a temp) strongly offends my principles.

I don't know what to do or how to demand compensation. We don't have a union. Also, I have a co-worker who does the same job I do, but he wasn't asked, so I will be labeled an ass-kisser if I do it.

This is totally unfair. If I get no offer tomorrow, I think I'm going to turn it down, but I'm afraid that if I'm asked for a reason, I'm going to blow up. I'm becoming more and more angry the more I think about it. The fact that they would even have the nerve really pisses me off.

I've decided that I'm going to accept their "offer", because I don't want to be branded by HR as a troublemaker. I am going to wait until the last minute, though, so that they get the message.

I'm so angry, though, that I'm going to get a prescription for Prozac.

My work steals my mental and physical health, my idealism, sometimes my dignity, and a lot of my respect for other people.

"so I slept pretty well last night, and more than usual, and I feel clear-
headed, energetic, and optimistic this morning. And it's driving me fucking
insane. I have all these things to think about, all these things I could be
doing, all this work on the website that needs to be done, all these records
to
review, and I'm totally in the mood to do it, and I'm stuck -- PINNED like a
bug! -- in this chair, doing a monotonous, repetitive job.

"Tell me the rest of my life won't be like this."

That reminds me.

That Girl, the reason why this bugs me so is that I've already applied to positions within the Bank with my old job title. So whatever recruiter got my resume could (and probably would) look up my info in the corporate directory, then see that the wrong title is listed on my resume. I'm assuming this could be perceived as outright fraud on my part, meaning I'm already disqualified for a job through no fault of my own.

The woman I am subbing for demanded an audit for her job, since they were giving her all of these extra tasks. She ended up getting a raise and the grade level of her job was raised. Still, I will reap no benefit from subbing for her. :(

NW, I don't blame you for being offended, but a warning: I've worked at places where the employee manual refers to assignments of this sort as a development opportunity that paves the way for a possible future promotion. Your bosses (and HR department) may think that they're doing you a favor by offering you this opportunity.

Try to read the employee manual to see what if anything they say on this topic, and try asking HR in a friendly manner about the stipend or any other special considerations.